FIVE DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL

RECORDING
 INDEX
• Introduction on OPTICAL RECORDING
• Five Dimensional Optical Recording
• Design of Recording medium
• Reading and Writing
• Fields of Applications
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Future scope
• Conclusion
• Reference
 INTRODUCTION ON
OPTICAL RECORDING

• recording data on a medium through the use of light

• photographic film has been widely used as the medium

• data is present on the surface of the medium in the

form of bumps and grooves

• eg: CD, DVD, Blu ray Disc etc

 Reading logic ‘0’

Reading logic ‘1’

 Five Dimensional Optical
Recording
• project carried out by Phd student Mr. Peter Zijlstra of
Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Australia

• Introduced two more dimensions to

existing 3D optical recording
technique
Dimensions of Data Storage

• parameter used to identify each bit of DATA

• Dimensions in 5D optical recording are

 3 Spatial Dimensions

 Color Dimension

 Polarization Dimension
 Design of recording
medium
• comes in the shape of a normal DVD, but thickness may vary

a. Gold nanorods in polymer solution coated on thin glass layer

b. Spacer

c. Polycarbonate substrate
 Gold Nanorods
• have extraordinary optical and electronic properties

• they are spectrum and polarization sensitive

• SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE of Gold nanorods

defines their use in 5D optical recording
 SPR
• emerges from the interaction between an electromagnetic
wave and the conduction electrons in a metal

• conduction electrons vibrate under the irradiation of light

at a resonant frequency

• results in two processes

 SCATTERING
 ABSORPTION
• frequency and bandwidth of the SP resonance depends on
the size and shape of the nanoparticles
 The above figure shows the far-field images of SPR modes of the
same single gold nano-rod for various incident laser light at red
(658nm), green (532 nm), and blue (488 nm)
Effect of COLORED Light on Gold Nanorods
• SPR of gold nanorods are wavelength depended and also on
size of nanoparticles
Effect of POLARIZED Light on Gold Nanorods

• during polarization of light electric field component is restricted

to a particular direction

• gold nanorods aligned in the direction of polarisation undergo SPR

 Writing

• tunable laser is used : Titanium Sapphire Femtosecond Laser

• Light impinging with a certain color and polarization will only target
a subpopulation of gold nanorods, leaving the remaining rods for
the next recording

• nanorods change shape when written and retains the shape

thereafter
 Reading

•Reading performed by 2 Photon Luminescence

•Reading the bits involves focusing light from the same laser on
the bits but with much lower energy

• Nanorods shine as they absorb light with same wavelength and

polarization that changed their shape during recording
Fields of Application

• Medical Field

• Military and Security Arenas

• Entertainment sector

• Space Research

• Financial sector
 Advantages

• Large storage space

• Compact and light

• Data security

• Can be manufactured on a large scale

 Concerns

• Slow Writing speed

• Impracticality of using Titanium Sapphire

Femtosecond Laser

• Cost Concerns
 Future Scope

• SAMSUNG has taken the rights of developing the drive

• Available in the market within 5 years

• Can increase the capacity to 10 TB

• Development much cheaper nanoparticles

 Conclusion

• promising approach for bulk data storage

• By introducing color and polarization dimension to existing

technology storage capacity can be increased to 1.6 TB

• with new advancement the storage can be increased to 10TB

 Reference
[1] Nanophotonics Down Under 2009 Devices and Applications ,
www.swinburne.edu.au

[2] Nano-particle Based Multi-Dimensional Data Storage.

By Xiangping Li (Thesis)
www.swinburne.edu.au/feis/cmp/publications/thesis/xli_2009.pdf

[3] Five dimensional optical recording

www.spectrum.ieee.org/fivedimensional-dvd.htm

[4] Nanotech DVD

http://www.macworld.com/article/140723/2009/05/nanotech_dvd.htm

[5] Five dimensional optical recording (journal)

www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7245/full/nature08053.html

[6] Five dimensional optical recording

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